I know you didn’t say anything about a car’s VIN. I was just picking what I considered to be an equally absurd scenario. Scanning license plates as a natural part of the route makes a lot more sense than the idea that they’d be looking at serial numbers on a boot and calling each other to confirm a booted vehicle. If…

Yep, that’s indeed one of a number of ways it could backfire. Another way is if it’s obviously the wrong model of boot.

Yep, still paper tickets here in LA, too.

...right. And I bet they run the VIN on their patrol cars every time they walk back to them to make sure it’s still the same car.

The idea is to trick them into thinking they already booted the car. If they think the first one is theirs, they're not going to waste time putting more on a car. 

Does it at least filter out the need to guess? One thing that seriously annoyed me about classic Minesweeper is that many games came down to a 50/50 guess, and other games might require randomly clicking on the board trying to find another clear space to work with. I like Hexcells much better in those regards. Even if…

If that guy is trying to hook a fifth wheel trailer to a bal hitch, he’s drunk enough to be lifting his leg to pee on the trailer also. Either that, or he uh, really loves his trailer.

They’re just card sleeves with custom artwork printed on the back. In the last two images, most of those sleeves are either empty or contain non-Urza cards. The actual backside of a Magic: The Gathering card looks completely different, but regardless of whether a sleeve exposes the back of the card or has substitute…

I agree that it’s way easier than it used to be, but it still seems to take 2 hands in normal non-highway traffic.

Not that it justifies looking at a phone while driving, but it’s hard to enjoy the sights and driving experience when sitting on the 405 for three hours a day. 

CA plates are issued sequentially based on certain rules. For instance, current white CA plates will be nXXXnnn, where ‘n’ is a number and ‘X’ is a letter. The design of the plate does not match the current numbering scheme for the CA black plates, nor does it match any other previously used numbering scheme. On that…

It doesn’t change the fact that it’s a case where playing ROMs on an emulator is legal. Going from there, I could pull the ROMs from my SNES classic an play them on a different emulator on my PC, and that’s legal too. So long as I don’t distribute those ROMs to other people or sell/give away my SNES Classic, those…

A load so big the guy could swing it around in a shopping bag? I’ve hauled much bigger loads than that for work in my Honda.

The NES Classic and SNES Classic are emulators, and it’s not illegal to play the ROMs on those.

You’ve never heard of AAA?

Actually, I was once pulled over for expired registration (several months overdue) and a broken turn signal, yet was only given a warning. No impound, not even a fix-it ticket.

A bit of a correction: That non-op fee is not an annual fee. It’s a one-time fee that covers the car the entire time it is non-op, no matter how many years it may sit unused. 

Holy crap! You actually made me find one thing to like about a modern-ish Cadillac. The Cadillac SRX has a ledge right at the base of the infotainment screen, which I routinely brace against when using the on-screen radio controls. It’s quite possibly the only bit of thoughtful design on that car--which probably means…

Unfortunately, modern car design is well on the road to making that impossible. Cadillac in particular seems to be dead-set on making blind spots a major product feature. Sometimes I have to drive a Cadillac SRX, and you absolutely have to use the backup camera to safely backup, because the rearward visibility is so…

As other people have pointed out, the quality of navigation can vary considerably. That said, I’ve been using GPS navigation since back when I needed a PDA and external GPS receiver to do it and was never routed to the wrong destination.